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> an enormous literary corpus reaching back to before English even existed Certainly true of Telegu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam. But because Bengali is, lik
by vorg 9y ago
> an enormous literary corpus reaching back to before English even existed
Certainly true of Telegu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam. But because Bengali is, like English, an Indo-European language, not true of it. Also, not sure what you mean by "etc".
- nine_k 9y agoSanskrit is also Indo-European, and definitely had a large literary corpus before English became separate from Old Norse.
- mdns33 9y agoLet the regional language wars begin.
- eponeponepon 9y agoAren't most wars about regional languages, when you get down to the nuts and bolts?
- panglott 9y agoEnglish is less than 1,000 years old in its identifiably modern form.